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Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021

333.Paragraph 17 requires Redress Scotland to report after each financial year on its activities during that year. The report must include an audited statement of its accounts, a general description of its activities, an assessment of the achievement of its objectives, an assessment of whether applicants for redress appear to have had the opportunity to make informed choices, an assessment of the accessibility and suitability of guidance available to applicants on the sources and types of information and evidence needed for applications for redress payments (with reference to the information and evidence considered by Redress Scotland in determining applications), and any other information the Scottish Ministers require. Redress Scotland can also, by virtue of paragraph 17(2), include in its annual report specific recommendations on any matter, in particular in relation to its assessments of the opportunity applicants have to make informed choices, and in relation to the accessibility and suitability of guidance available to applicants about the sources and types of information and evidence. Redress Scotland must publish this report and send a copy of it to Ministers. The paragraph further requires that the Scottish Ministers lay the annual reports before the Scottish Parliament.

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